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1000000 coin before they finally wake up a a day. this is because we are standing together with our nato allies against the potential aggression vladimir putin. boys. johnson's attempt to shift attention to ukraine is criticized by lawmakers as the prob, into downing street influence 2020 lockdown party. find serious failure in staying with ukraine. no threat nova pined invasion has ever come from any russian politician. moscow's convoy to the un is clear about attempts to escalate the security situation in the region. kind of as prime minister tries to slag off an escalating protest movement as a mob of races who steal through it from the homeless as more than 10000,
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probably against no job, no job mandate. the parliament building and ottawa prime minister words seem to have only port fuel on the fire. it breaks my heart because by government suppose now, but that is quality, erases it extra a to deserve that. i thought we were mad because local brandon, is it a freedom of fiji? also a passenger accused as an airline piloting. he's freedom of speech after he's asked to remove his face, math because of the anti biden. let's go brendan slogan written on it with kathy live director with studios and moscow. this is art international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us now in an abrupt reversal of an popular policy in the u. k. u government has announced intentions to scrap of vaccine
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mandate for health care workers in england to mid severe staff shortages and hospitals. while vaccination remains our very best line of defense against carbon 19, i believe that it is no longer proportionate to require vaccination as a condition of deployment through statute. tens of thousands of national health care employees had faced losing their jobs. if they didn't get their 1st shot this week, the policy had sparked massive outrage as about 80000 and just workers are still unvaccinated. we spoke with a frontline worker, nurse, naomi bennett, who says the mandate infringed on personal choice. it was bordering on quite begging just, you know, taking away the choice for the health care work. busy you know, there's lots resistance around the decision to actually make the faxing mandatory for health care professionals. i think it's important to look at some of the options. it's important that i keep up to date with the changing information because that's most important. it's not, it's not ideal to target
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a certain set of the work for the please. it could have applied to, but you know, to, to specifically have health care work is lisa, i'm really pleased that they review the situation right. that is, at the same time as the party did, scandal, is going from bad to worse for britain's prime minister. now, boys johnson has shifted focus to russia, and it's supposed to plan to invade ukraine on the day. and internal prob, in the u. k came to damming conclusions, forcing him to apologize. persley, i want to say, sorry, mister speaker, i get it and i will fix the promise to do the decent thing and resign. yeah. of course he won't, because he has a mind without shame. if there was any on any honor in public life, that he would reside the wedding and he law. just
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a little while ago, my colleague kevin owen, got the latest developments from our team in london. for weeks, the government almost hid behind the phrase we await the sou gray report today really was supposed to be the day to hold boards, johnson and the government to account. but now we've got this report. it's just a measly 12 pages long. it's more of a common tree, more of a summary. definitely not the full report like we were expecting last week. now she was supposed to talk about 16 parties, but the police are looking into 12 of them, meaning she could only talk about 4. now about these full parties, though some of the key lines included some behavior is difficult to justify, to little thought was given to public health, and there are many failures of leadership as well. but another line that laptop to me is on page 5 of this report and it reads, it is not possible to present a meaningful report now that su gray. almost saying there's
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a lot more than i want to say. but at this point, i simply cannot do so to, to this metropolitan police investigation. now, downing street says to grey can update this report later, but that pretty much rules out. any sense of the full report will come anytime soon . but for the public, they really want to know what happened on many of these key dates, like may the 20th bring your own booze. party were allegedly a 100 people were invited. boris johnson's birthday party in june, the 19th and of course, the parties that happened allegedly happened, and the night before prince philip's funeral. no, su bray says the government needs to address this immediately and does not need to wait for the police investigation. bar. johnson, as you just heard the say, he's sorry, and he will fix it and that the government can be trusted. but really the public. all questioning boris johnson how trustworthy the government is. and in fact, a poll suggests that knowing intent people one boris johnson,
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it to resign on the sentiment in westminster in the house of commons, is no different either many m p's, including within johnson's own party, want to see in paris. johnson walk out of number 10. forget, yeah, you get the sense times are really running out, but he said brave it out of the moment. what a good time than to deflect attention to talk about ukraine, russia. let's talk about that with you. he said, what's happening on that side of it? well, bars, johnston is fighting for his political future at home, but seems to be concerned with perhaps focusing minds elsewhere. now he did face a very raucous house of commons, who were, of course, pinning down and trying to put him under the under the spotlight. really for that alleged lawbreaking over the course of the previous old, nearly 2 years now. and the parties and the other examples of alleged lawbreaking over that period, but as far as bores johnson is concerned, people should be focusing less on that. and what he says is the danger posed by
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russia at its president vladimir putin today, mrs. b, here we are standing together with our nato allies against the potential aggression vladimir putin when he wanted, not so long ago to install the prime minister as prime minister, a labor leader who actually published nato, i. now, all of this comes off to the u. k. his sense of military forces to ostensibly, as they would say, train forces in ukraine, also sending funds for the purchases of weapons. now, parcels was julia monday to have a phone call, a telephone call with vladimir putin, but that was initially pushed back to the evening. it's now going to be held tuesday, we understand, and barbara johnson looking at to really try to distract politically from his own woes. the russians are less than impressed. they say that this is exactly what that is an attempt at of she's cation and distraction. and that's something which
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has been a mimicked and repeated by those, even within the house of commons, who again say the bars, johnson has far more important things to concern himself with. boris johnson says he's helping with the diplomatic situation in russia and ukraine. he has no credibility, no one trusts him. the best thing he could do to help would be to resign. he will travel to moscow or wherever he's going in eastern europe this week. but every one will know that he's a man with a time bomb sitting on to him. now, tuesday of our assumption is also scheduled to head out to the ukraine. a for number of meetings that he'll be hoping that sir, all minds will be focused on that rather than his own political precious to that. and as far as secretary liz at trust has been speaking in the house of commons. tough talking words really from the foreign secretary, who's been saying that, sir, in order to add discourage russia from what they say our intentions to invade
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ukraine, something that's been strenuously denied by moscow. they, the u. k. government are willing to impose sanctions on russian companies and on russian business men. so all eyes will be on boris johnson's a trip to the ukraine on. of course, that key phone call with vladimir putin to see whether actually the prime minister will concerned dialogue or with ratcheting up tensions. former london, mayor ken livingstone told us that this has nothing to do with russia's supposed invasion of ukraine and everything with the scandals piling up around. johnson used to being lied to the politics all my life. and i don't believe a word that the british government or the american government is saying about the intention of puting if you low the lead of ukraine is telling the west to sort of wind all this down. i don't feel under threats at all. if we get into sanctions with russia, we will be in a position where it damages many of our businesses,
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many, perhaps tens of thousands of people lose their jobs here in this country. and the simple fact is, this is all i think being ran tough by our prime minister barak johnson to distract attention from the scandal he's involved in that he held always illegal parties at 10 downing street while the rest of us were already knocked down when a prime minister's court lying is the end of their career. and the simple fact is, the poll ratings boris johnson are so low. and if i had to take out a bet, now that we local, they didn't show up. i'd actually be betting that boris might be our prime minister at the end of this year. and rushes envoy to the un gave more details on the fake hysteria built up around the ukraine crisis. and a special meeting of the security council. the blue rose, no threats of a plan division of ukraine has ever been made by any russian politician. if us initiated un security council meeting on ukraine, is yet another attempt to drive
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a wedge between moscow and key of the meeting took place and opened with the representative of the united states. who made a number of serious allegations against russia, alleging that they are planning and invasion of ukraine, that a large number of russian troops are a mass on the border that rushes on the brink of invading ukraine, violating their sovereignty, heard the russian representative say that they have no intention of the invading ukraine, that no threat of invading ukraine has ever been levelled. now furthermore, they argued that the united states is putting ukraine in danger that these allegations from the united states have already taken an economic toll on ukraine. there are voices in ukraine, arguing that these actions by the united states are not benefiting ukraine and consistently the russian representative called for recognition of the minced agreement and talked about how the united states seems to be ignoring this very, very important agreement that was made with the intention of de, escalating the situation in the country, russian representative as he was leaving the un security council. he made very,
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very clear that the goal of russia is to have the situation de escalate. and he did speak about the danger of a possible provocation from the united states or a provocation of some kind designed to maybe present it is if russia was invading ukraine when they weren't or provoke some kind of action from the, from russia. and he warned about how the united states seems to be trying to put your grain into a situation where the situation could intensify. he pointed out that in the remarks that were made by the u. s. representative, they gave a number of people that had been killed. the russian representative pointed out that most of those people that were killed in the conflict were civilians who were killed by the ukrainian government. quite a meeting, quite big differences between the united states and russia around this issue. russia maintains these allegations coming from the united states that some kind of russian invasion of ukraine is eminent. these allegations are just not the truth. the u. s. official says,
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the russian government has responded to washington's proposals for the escalation of the ukraine crisis. without elaborating, we will bring you more details as soon as we get them. as independent journalists, martin summers has noted ukraine has been warning its western allies to tone down their belligerent rhetoric. zalinski is potentially a, you know, somebody who could negotiate about this is a saying to his western allies and, and patrons, you know, you're not helping us here. now you'd have thought that that might make people like doris johnson. take a step back in and have a word with themselves, but of course they've got their own. i mean, he's got his own reasons for talking to the u. s. as go to, you know, basically does not want a peaceful resolution of this crisis. it wants it to drive home so that they can bring sanctions to bear on russia as part of general geo political contest with the russian federation. you know,
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basically threatening to fight to the last ukranian. ah, canada's prime minister who recently fled the capital as thousands of truckers and their supporters took to the streets to vent their anger about vaccine mandates appears to have poured fuel on the fire by calling them a mob of racists who steal food from the homeless. i want to be very clear. we are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless. we won't give in to those who fly racist flags. we won't cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonor the memory of our veterans. i've been a truck driver for 18 years. i've never had an accident. never had a violation in what my government is supposed to have my back. when you're in trouble and you need to help your government is supposed to be there for you.
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they're not supposed to drag you down. and what i've seen over the past 2 years, it's been devastating as breaks. it breaks my heart because my government supposed to have my back when i'm out there working hard and i'm trying to do my job, keep these stores like look, this wonderful store behind me this, this warehouse was gonna fill up my traitor and go he's calling me a racist his extremist. what have i done to deserve that? mrs. footage of the sunday protest in the canadian capital where crowds and vehicles blocked, he roads around to the parliament building? the protesters braved warnings of extreme cold in ottawa to vent their opposition to pandemic restrictions. many said that they were not against the jobs just being forced by the government to take them off. please say it is costing
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$600000.00 a day to maintain security in the capital during the rallies. protests erupted after the government extended jap mandates for truck drivers. crossing the border with us, the truckers saying that that threatens vital supply chains, but the canadian health agency justified the move siding, rising covered cases and hospitalizations. let's take a quick look at how the protests have unfolded for the past few weeks. it's not about the vaccine itself, it's about demanding and the freedom to choose. that is what these ordinary hardworking canadians are here. they want, they want their freedoms, restore a small fringe minority of people who are on their way to
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ottawa are holding unacceptable. views that they are expressing do not represent the views of canadians who have been there for each others who's overtaken by fear. this is all of the read it, not only with a truck driver actually for every single person, you mean money down the road and doesn't matter. it's all about your choice. ah, canadian truck driver, steven whitman again expresses his outrage, saying the government is dividing the nation to serve its own goals. what is happening over here is an absolute tragedy. our own prime minister, who is in charge of our provinces and territories,
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is using words like races, massage is extremist to describe truck drivers and people are across canada that are fighting hard every day to keep our supply chains stocked in full so that nobody is suffering and we are already in canada $23000.00 driver short. and by putting these mandates, it further puts strain on, on the system of almost $16000.00 more drivers, which is going to drive the prices up. and it's infuriating that he is dividing a nation. he's dividing his voters so that he can push an initiative to be popular on the world stage. the movement right now, it is bo my mind. it as a truck driver. i've been following it for almost every hour. watching the numbers grow and the support grow and it is so heart warming. it's so emotional to see the support from around the world. and it's growing. i mean it's growing and it's
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growing so fast, it's taken a life of its own. that is so wonderful to watch. and the convoy is now inspiring crowds across the world. this is footage of protest in australia and the netherlands with people demanding that coven health rules are scraps. we will keep you posted on the growing wave of global anti restriction. raleigh. this is not america anymore. it is how a passenger on spirit airlines reacted when staff told him to remove his face math because it had the anti biden. let's go brandon slogan on it. video of the incident has exploded on social media racking up more than 400000 views on tick tock alone. not america anymore, the not america anymore. because if i had a b, l a mascot wouldn't have been ok. what does that mean? like like that or? no. what does that? well, that's grand in. what does that mean?
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it's my name. but isn't it freedom of speech that have the mask on? is it, is it a freedom to see? is this massive home? i just i can, we're massive has lots of brandon. is this anybody i don't understand. the incident happened on a flight from cleveland to tampa. one of the crew said it was unacceptable for the passenger. adam redone yet to display a political statement, citing the airlines policy. but he claims it's a violation of his freedom of speech. we have contacted spirit airlines for comment, and of course we will bring you any response if they give us one or now that slogan, let's go. brandon has become a code for insulting president biden. it started when nascar driver, brandon brown was being interviewed a few months ago. after winning a race of the crowd behind him began chanting an expletive about the president, but reporter thought they were saying, let's go. brandon. we spoke to that very passenger, adam or donia. you think the issue was because of the flight attendants, personal views rather than it being an airline requirements. it is a public,
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you're an airline, it's a company. ready that they can enforce you know, policies. ready and things and things like that, but i still, they get balls on their freedom of speech because it was, you know, it was basically violated. it wasn't spirit, it wasn't spirit palsy that i should not wear this. so it was, it was a direct situation with the actual bite attendance. i mean anything will offend anybody. and if it's not, it's all personal, saying it's not, you know, she might have thought, you know, something else was offensive if i, but if i would have had, you know, by 2024 or 5 or anything, anything of that sort. what she had told me to take it on, you know, and i don't, i don't think that would be the case. i think if she would have liked it, she would have, let me, let me wear it. the passenger next to me had
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a and i fell masked on. i mean, and if l to be political, i could have offended me, but she would have told him to take it off. the us government has allegedly relocating illegal migrants from southern border areas to other parts of the country, including new york on secret flights and border patrol. agents are speaking out about the policy, including an angry exchange during what was meant to be a morale boosting visit by the head of homeland security and the us border patrol. chief in laredo, texas, i was more than 180000 migrants tried to enter the u. s. from mexico in december alone. and over the course of last year, a total of more than $2000000.00 enter the u. s. from the southern border.
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congressional republicans have urged to joe biden to stop the secret migrant flights. we demand you provide congress and all new york is with the current location and status of each illegal immigrant. you have transferred to our state the new york because we represent are entitled to know how you'll failure to address the crisis at our southern border continues to impact that communities and day to day lice. we discussed the issue with political analyst and radio host, dave perkins, who thinks the substantial public backlash could put an end to the secret flights. the only thing that can stop this is very strongly expressed, very large public opinion against it. because the more the public is aroused, the more they will make efforts to find out more about what's going on. the more that is learned, the more public opinion will turn against it. and in the end it will cost these people power. but as long as they don't think they are at the point where it will cost them power, they will continue to do it because the gambit of filling america with illegal
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aliens and then demanding that either we give them the vote or we are racist, is going to work, but it better work fast. another 4 years goes by like this. practically the entire american public will be against it and them, and the democrats, instead of getting power for life, will lose it or a very long time. so they're in a hurry, and that's why they haven't slowed down, but rather have sped up the process of bringing in thousands of illegal immigrants a day. they intend to change the demographics of american elections and take permanent power. this way. the french ambassador tamale has been given 72 hours to leave the country as relations between paris and the west african nation. deteriorate. further our correspond, charlotte davinsky explains 72 hours to vacate the country. that is the message to francis ambassador from the marlin authorities. this marking a severe escalation intentions now between paris and per marco. basically what we
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know is that the molly and authorities are outraged by what they say have been comments coming from french government officials over the last few weeks, which they say are outrageous. more to those comments where we have heard from the french foreign minister, and this is new to peon, who basically said that the rule in june to, in molly was out of control. and we also heard from fairlance, polly, who's the defense minister in france saying that france won't stay in the country at any cost. now, of course, the tensions are even wretched it higher with this announcement that the ambassador must go. the tensions have been high for over a year now since the 2nd military coup in morley in 2 years took place back in 2021. now at the time we heard from the family and authorities that they would be
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free and fair elections in february of this year. but that promise has since been rescinded, and that has been to the anger of paris president micron has also announced in the last few months a phase with pool of french soldiers in marley soldiers that have been in the country since 2013 as part of operations to trying to keep a lid on to hardest insurgencies in the country. now at 1st those operations seem to be so in the seeds of success. but in the last few years, the has been an escalation intentions in the country. and that doesn't seem to be the case any more, in fact, marlene's of becoming increasingly frustrated with foreign soldiers on their home turf. me any of those who are french and of course are or soldiers from other european countries as well. and as a result of that, there have been protests across marley with people saying this is
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a sense of these continuing colonial ties of the country. now in the last a few weeks, we have covered here on r t, the sanctions that have now been impose on molly because of the fact that the ruling authorities are not going to hold those elections in the foreseeable future . the e is also backing those sanctions now it's also a cause. tensions that are marlin authorities have actually called on russia for aid in terms of training their soldiers on the ground. and of course, that has ended the european union, which is now supporting these a very severe sanctions against the country marley, one of the poorest countries in the world with 1200000 people who have food insecure and 7500000 people who are said to be in urgent aid at the moment, and we've heard from agencies that those sanctions are really going to hit the most vulnerable. but the latest news coming out of the country now is that the tensions
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between france and molly? all right, pretty much an all time high. that announcement that the molly and authorities have given the french ambassador just 72 hours to leave 32 minutes at about 5 o'clock in the morning. moscow time i will be back with another look at your new stay with us or to just join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess all the world politics sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm ah,
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